Conditions Quote by Tony Burgess

The attraction of horror is a mental, or even an intellectual, excitement, but the fascination of the repulsive, so noticeable incontemporary writing, can spring…

— Ellen Glasgow

I don't write that much horror. People tell me my books are scary, but they're not really; I don't go there.

— Melissa de la Cruz

“So in that sense, I and my fellow horror writers are absorbing and defusing all your fears and anxieties and insecurities and taking them…

— Stephen King

. . . It is as though horror has frozen the blood in my veins, paralyzed my arms, and torn all thought from my…

— Ernst Udet

There is a mystery about this which stimulates the imagination; where there is no imagination there is no horror.

— Anonymous

I never actually wanted to write horror, oddly enough. It was a kind of misnomer, because I didn't ever actually write horror in the…

— Peter James

Think about the stories you have inside that scare you. That's what you should be writing. I and others call that writing from the…

— Leslie Pietrzyk

What frightens you? What makes the hair on your arms rise, your palms sweat, the breath catch in your chest like a wild thing…

— Libba Bray

I am pretty scare-able. I guess that is why I like doing horror because my imagination can take me places.

— Annabeth Gish

Horror is really in your psyche, it gets deeper into your brain.

— Nia DaCosta

I don't think I've ever frightened myself before when writing, but there were areas where there was terror, as though I was looking into…

— Alan Garner

When so much is left to the listener's imagination, it is bound to be more scary. But our stories are not just to frighten;…

— Larry Fessenden